Just as all hope seemed to be lost, a group of Canadian settlers accompanied by an American soldier from Captain Morgan’s forward detachment appeared with a column of pack animals laden with supplies. Morgan’s riflemen, having gone ahead of the main body, secured the provisions from the village of Sartigan farther down the river and sent it back just in time to save Arnold’s main force. Over the next ten days, the roughly 600 soldiers who were still ambulatory restored their health and spirits with the supplies obtained at Sartigan and other villages on the lower Chaudiere River.
"Not more than eight miles had we marched, when a vision of horned cattle, four footed beasts, &c. rode and drove by animals resembling Plato’s two footed featherless ones. Upon a nigher approach our vision proved real! Exclamations of joy.—Echoes of gladness resounded from front to rear! with a te deum. Three horned cattle, two horses, eighteen Canadians and one American. A heifer was chosen as victim to our wants; slain and divided accordingly. Each man restricted to one pound of beef. Soon arrived two more Canadians in B. Canoes, ladened with a coarse kind of meal, mutton, tobacco, &c."
Dr. Isaac Senter, in his journal, 2 November 1775Senter, Isaac The Journal of Isaac Senter, Physician and Surgeon to the Troops Detached from the American Army Encamped at Cambridge, Mass., on a Secret Expedition against Quebec, under the Command of Col. Benedict Arnold, in September 1775. (Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1846), pp. 36-37.